The table below shows data for the field Are referendum results binding? , which is part of our database Direct Democracy. The countries shown can be limited by region and by field value.
Another way people rationalize the status quo is through the use of stereotypes. When people perceive threats to the predominant system, they are more inclined to cling to and back the existing structure, and one way of doing so is by means of endorsing stereotypes that rationalize inequality.
Status quo is a Latin phrase meaning the existing state of affairs, particularly with regards to social or political issues.In the sociological sense, it generally applies to maintain or change existing social structure and values.t is the nominal form of the prepositional Latin phrase  in statu quo  â literally in the state in which, which itself is a shortening of the original phrase in statu quo res erant ante bellum, meaning in the state in which things were before the war.